What Is the Textile Waste Crisis? The fashion industry’s boom has come at a steep environmental cost. Each year, around 92 million tonnes of textile waste are produced worldwide — much of it ending up ...

Walk into a modern semiconductor factory and you’ll see full end-to-end automated processes. Visit an automotive plant and you’ll watch lines weld and paint without a human touch. But walk into a ...

Kipas Textiles, an integrated textile manufacturer headquartered in Turkey, has launched fibR-e, a new recycling platform it says is designed to address the hurdles that have stopped polyester from ...

DURHAM, N.C. - For decades, North Carolina's textile industry has been in freefall. Since the 1990s, the state has lost more than 80% of its textile jobs, leaving behind shuttered mills and fading ...

Along the Silk Road, the story of Uzbekistan appears first in color. Silk threads soaking in baths of natural dyes. Red, blue, and gold pillowcases in markets and showrooms. Motifs repeated across ...

SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 30 (UPI) --Chile has launched an effort to reduce textile waste that has led creating some 4,000 illegal dumps across the country, several of them in the Atacama Desert. Through ...

A talismanic tunic made in Mali during the 20th century. The “charm gown” protects its wearer both spiritually and physically by being decorated with powerful inscriptions and a special mixture. (all ...

President Donald Trump has embarked on an “America First” trade policy that rightly seeks to correct decades of unfair and unbalanced trade that has harmed U.S. manufacturers and workers. The U.S.

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...

Dr. Sara Nabil receives funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Queen's University Research Initiation Grant, and The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ...

Every year, the U.S. generates 17 million tons of textile waste that ends up in landfills according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Out of the total amount, 11.3 million tons goes straight to ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Lesotho's modified tariff rate of 15% may still not be enough to save its textiles industry, its trade minister said on Friday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump ...